Georgia · Nonprofit
THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC
THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,471,916 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($2,600,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What The Children's Museum of Atlanta Inc does
Mission
To change the world by sparking every child's imagination, sense of discovery and learning through the power of play.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Museum received a $2.5m grant to produce a new permanant exhibit and programming on character education for you children and famlies. The work is ongoing.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Children's museum of atlanta (cma) operates as an institution of informal learning for young children, their parents, caregivers, and teachers. Through interactive exhibits, programs, workshops, and extensive outreach. The museum offers opportunities to address subjects and issues that are important and relevant to schools, families, and the community. The total number of museum visitors and children who have visited the museum has surpassed 3,500,000 since opening in 2003. The exhibits and programs below were presented throughout the fiscal year 2024-25. Virtual programming continued to ensure access and equity to cma programs. The museum changed in-person requirements to align with the center for disease control's guidance and provide guests access to in-person programming.exhibits & programming: presented the following feature exhibits: animationland, may 18, 2024 september 8, 2024: guests were invited on a fantastical journey to create stories using art and science, channeling their creativity using animation basics such as storyboarding, sketching, stop-motion movie making, and more. Children engaged in interactive activities, including creating 14-frame animations,…
$3,511,113 spent$1,866,414 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,511,113.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $6.4M to $8.4M (+32%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 13% · 2022 10% · 2023 4% · 2024 4% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Edwin Link
Executive director
Board chair
Serena Levy
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $59k → $523k.
6 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.0M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 26% · 2019 29% · 2020 27% · 2021 21% · 2022 32% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
32% of THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $215k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $210k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$210k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC?
- THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,471,916 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($2,600,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $5,471,916 in grants to THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ATLANTA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 57 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing